ROLE PLAYING

Presented by
Ansuman Sar
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may
remember; involve me and I'll understand.” 

Ben Franklin
WHAT IS ROLE PLAYING?
It is a realistic situation where trainees assume the
parts(or roles) of specific persons in that situation
WHY ROLE PLAYING?
 Learning by experiencing
 Helps to understand the job and the situation
 Feeling the heat
 improvement of interpersonal relationship 
 developing better understanding of the issue an better
decision making 
FACTORS OF ROLE PLAY
 Level
 Time

 Aim

 Organization(size of the group)

 Preparation and warm-up

 Procedure

 Follow Up

 Variation
FIVE DIMENSIONS OF ROLE PLAYING
SALIENT FEATURES OF A ROLE PLAY
 Learning by doing
 Learning through imitation 

 Learning through observation and feedback 

 Learning though analysis and conceptualization 

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROLE PLAY
 Multiple Role Play
 Single Role Play

 Role Rotation 

 Scripted or Unscripted
STAGES OF ROLE PLAY
Three stages

 Setting up the play

 The play stage

 The follow up stage

RETURN ON “ROLE PLAYING”
 Helps in both cognitive and effective development
 Helps in improving human relation since it helps
developing empathy
 Helps in making people sensitive towards others

 Helps in better SWOT analysis of individuals and thus

the feedback given helps in identifying and overcoming
the deficiencies.
 Enables to control behavior in a real life situation

 Helps in bringing attitudinal changes

 A more practical approach than other technique since in

this the learning by doing and feedback that whether a
behavior reflected is acceptable or requires change can
be given.
EXAMPLE OF ROLE PLAY
3 roles
A customer(also an employee of an educational institute)
needs software of payroll at less cost.

A Sales person who have to sell that product as it is a

deadline to given to him.

Boss of sales person: Very adamant person.

THANK YOU